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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Flash Season 2 Finale-Is there a Berlanti Curse?

I’m noticing a
pattern with these Berlanti Production DC TV shows. Around Season 2 the writing
starts to fall apart. After Watching The Flash’s head scratching Season 2
finale I’m left wondering if there’s a Berlanti Curse on their productions.

I saw a similar
decline in the quality on Arrow on Season 2 right after Deathstroke killed
Ollie’s Mommy. The Flash was running right along into the finale until that
proposal for a race from Zoom. So Zoom’s gonna cause all this terror on two or
possibly three earths, kill a bunch of people, take Barry’s powers, Kidnap an
Earth 3 Jay Garrick, Kill’s Barry’s dad all in an effort to get Barry Allen to
race him.

What the Fuck?

Oh yeah, Zoom made
this magnetron or whatever to destroy the universe. But the whole season’s storyline
just collapsed with that climax. All setup with next to no payoff. The Flash
spends 22 episodes building up Zoom into a superbad who’s supposed to be
feared, kills a bunch of people including Barry’s Dad and all he wants is a
race against a superhero from another earth?

Damn. Just Damn. He
coulda did all that in one fuckin’ episode. Then we could have moved on to some
of the more important rogues like Mirror Master or Mr. Element.

As The Flash built
into the lackluster climax of the finale we have Barry splitting in two, The Speed
force ghosts Ex Machina coming to get Zoom (Nice CGI) after Barry beats them and
the revelation that Jay Garrick on Earth 3 looks like Barry’s Dad. I’ll have to
say The Golden Age Flash costume was pretty odd looking. And the explanation
for Jay wearing the tin cap was just crap. Then after everyone goes back to
their earth Barry gets so EMO that he decides to run back in time and stop
Reverse Flash from killing his mother.

Setting up a time
paradox for Season 3 and another run around the vicious cycle of bad writing.

Again. Damn. Just
Damn.

Er…Barry couldn’t
have done that in Season 1? Then we could have built into Jay Garrick &
Earth 2 in a nice organic fashion with a crisis on Earth’s 1 and 2 needing
Arrow, Supergirl and the Legends of Tomorrow to face it in a 4-part crossover.
But Death angst, and drama had to be padded out for an entire season with a
LAME of a villain who paid off like a $5 food stamp without the book in 2016.

For me, The Flash lost a lot of momentum after Tuesday’s Finale. An entire season worth of build
fell into a Black hole of absolutely terrible writing. It seems like the show’s
story model is running around in a circle that’s turning into a vicious cycle.
Time travel is turning into a Deus ex machina for Flash writers to get
themselves out of a jam and the storytelling is just going around and around instead
of moving ahead. What started out as a promising sci-fi show is starting to
head right off the rails creatively.

Seriously, I’m
starting to think there’s there a Berlanti Curse. Because these Berlanti
Productions crumble into dust in their sophomore seasons. They start out strong
in the first season setting things up, but around the second season the writing
starts falling apart. Arrow fell apart around season 2.5 and the Flash started
slowing down around Season 2.75. With the way things are going Supergirl and
Legends of Tomorrow will start a similar decline as well. Can a Berlanti
Production get to Season 3 without collapsing? I’m still waiting to see if it’s
possible.

If Flash starts
running down Arrow’s road of declining quality, I have a feeling we’re in for a
shittacular season 3 that will make Arrow’s season 3 look like one of the best
things ever produced on television.

Here’s some advice
for the Flash producers: Less time travel, More Rogues. And get Wentworth
Miller back on this show so he can chill out as Captain Cold. He’s chewing
scenery on Legends of Tomorrow.

Berlanti
Productions has good production values and they know how to cast an actor for a
role. But the big problem for all four of their shows has been the inconsistent,
and sometimes AWFUL scripts being pumped out by their writers. It’s clear to me
that they need new showrunners and new writers because the scripts being
produced on all four of their shows just aren’t GOOD in most cases. That Flash
finale and a couple of episodes leading up to it needed another polish, Many
episodes in Supergirl needed a serious rewrite. Legends should have NEVER been
greenlit, and Arrow just needs...to be cancelled The Season 4 finale was literally shit on a plate.

If Berlanti
productions could just get its writing together they could make some classic
superhero TV shows. But as it stands now the stories just aren’t compelling
enough to be must see superhero TV. Berlanti productions needs new writers and
they need them NOW.

2 comments:

Having a four series crossover involving Supergirl could have that programme rebooted and I frankly see it as inevitable since Supergirl moved to the CW. Though the changes would both take places gradually and beforehand like introducing Superboy as James's little brother and a new actor as James.

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